Cuneale was so much elated by his success in repelling the Portuguese, that, in addition to his former title, he stiled himself _Defender of the Mahometan Faith and Conqueror of the Portuguese_; but when the season returned for maritime operations on the coast, the viceroy sent

While the imagery here -- the clinging vines, the strong tree -- and some of the sentiments might at first confirm our suspicions that Sonnets from the Portuguese is an embarassing sequence of poems, it helps if we focus on this sonnet's strange violence towards thought and on its emphasis on thought as violence that chokes and conceals its object.

It has attracted the attention of celebrity bloggers such as Marcelo TAS [pt], a popular name on the Brazilian blogosphere and host of CQC, a humorous journalism TV show (acronym for “No Matter the Cost” in Portuguese).